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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had proceeded it.